Improvement in compounds for soap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTA VUS L. S. J'ENIFER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOUNDS FOR SOAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,669, datedSeptember 14, 1875; application filed August '23, 1675.

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAVUS L. S. JENI- FER, of Cincinnati, Hamiltoncounty, State of Ohio, have in invented an Improvement in Compounds forSoap, of which the following is a specification:

My invention has for its object to furnish, and consists in, an improvedsoap formed of the ingredients hereinafter mentioned;

In preparing my improved soap I combine with each other the followingingredients, boiling the same in any manner and in any of the vesselscommonly used for that purpose: Into thirty-two gallons of water Iintroduce ten pounds of carbonate of soda, (sal soda thirty ounces ofcarbonate of ammonia; three ounces of borax three ounces of saltsoftartar; two ounces of common salt; and twelve pounds of a hard erasivesoap hereinafter described.

I do not limit myself to the exact proportions stated, as they may bevaried considercocoa or palm oil, twenty pounds; water, fourteengallons.

This hard erasive soap is reduced to shavings or small pieces andintroduced at the proper time into the first-named compound, and whenthe two are sufficiently commingled and united, so as to form a pastymass, the product will be a soap possessing superior detersivequalities.

Any other hard soap which affords a sufficient base to hold thefirst-mentioned compound Will answer the purpose Well, since the essenceof the invention lies in increasing the detergent qualities of hard soapof commerce.

What I claim, therefore, as of my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The improved compound for soap, consisting of water, sal soda, carbonateof ammonia, borax, salts of tartar, common salt, and hard erasive soap,combined substantially in the proportions and as hereinbefore specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV'US L. S. JENIFER.

